placenamesBallinteer
Baile an tSaoir
A club serving Ballinteer and its wider neighbourhood grew from borrowed match equipment into a permanent home beside Marlay Park.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Baile an tSaoir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballinteer · English · main form
Place & story
The first volunteers
Ballinteer St Johns began in 1982, with Maurice O’Connell as chairman, Mick Wren as secretary and Tom Cosgrave as treasurer. John Gillick’s account of the club’s foundations records forty juvenile members by the end of June that year. Its first opponents, a Thomas Davis selection at Marlay Park, had to supply both teams’ jerseys and a football. These practical beginnings place volunteer work at the centre of the club’s story. [2]
Making room beside Marlay Park
Michael Hand’s first-person history follows the search for a clubhouse site through the early 1990s. Changes to Grange Road created an opportunity beside Marlay Park, where a small proposed building developed into a larger clubhouse. Áras Naomh Eoin opened for business in December 2003; Bertie Ahern performed its official opening on 8 May 2005. The clubhouse serves the wider club community, rather than only Ballinteer townland. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballinteer. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Exploring Our Foundations: Ballinteer St Johns · John Gillick, Ballinteer St Johns
- Áras Naomh Eoin – Our Home by the Park · Michael Hand; published by John Gillick, Ballinteer St Johns
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.